Famous Quotes & Sayings

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

Patrick Macnee

I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

Peter Jackson

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

Peter Jackson

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.

That was his famous saying, ... He would never let them leave feeling like they had failed.

Andy Roddick

That's the weird part for me, ... Being famous never feels normal. I don't know if it will ever become normal.

That says something in itself. It's still one of the most famous bonspiels in the world.

Zoe Sugg

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

The precious metals markets have all the ingredients necessary to repeat the performance they were once famous for.

Two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

Robert Kiyosaki

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

Og Mandino

I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Henry Ford

If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who cannot love must learn to flatter.

Jim Morrison

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Russell Crowe

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

Edgar Allan Poe

This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

As a practical matter, we all do have opinions of whether someone famous has done something wrong or not. But presumption of innocence has nothing to do with what goes on outside the courtroom.

Mae Whitman

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

Sam Claflin

A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was at his house and he said, 'Are you on Twitter?' I said, 'Yes, I am.' And he said, 'There'll be one day when you'll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it'll go to five thousand.'

Andrew Clements

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

Jennifer Grey

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if I know anything about famous musicians, most of them will be sitting around muttering and grumbling and bitching about all the others.

A lot of people loved John Paul. His famous quote was that the youth were the salt of the earth.' Salt preserves things and it's up to the youth to preserve the faith. He did a lot for the younger generation.

You're not selling the property for the property sake itself. You're using the ill-gotten notoriety of one of the country's most famous serial killers to jack up the price.

You need to tell the famous stories, old and new. There are lots and lots of famous stories. You need to not shy away from those.

It's just magic. I told Sal he's going to get famous off it.

John Smoltz

It's just ingrained into a player now. It's more famous here than anyplace else in the world, ... The only thing about it here is it's followed by, 'Let's score some runs!'

Terry Crews

It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in!

Jesse Jackson

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackie Kennedy

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

Gary Busey

Winners do what losers don't want to do.

The most practical way to become famous is to survive a major tragedy.